HRQoL data will be compared with Australian population norms using independent t tests, and associations between HRQoL, health status, psychological distress, work limitations and demographic factors will be evaluated using univariate and multivariate analyses.
Participants with migraine with aura had significantly greater numbers of years with migraine than did those without aura, but they had comparable levels of distress, work impairment, number of days a year with headache, and proportion of years treated.
Data on work hours per week, children, fatigue, depression, sleep problems, physical complaints, cognitive dysfunction, psychological distress, work load and work stress have been reported previously (Spelten et al, 2003).
Secondly, the high levels of subjective distress, work impairment, and disability due to headache among people with migraine confirm retrospective research on the dramatic impact of migraine on people's lives.
The patient questionnaire will collect data across the key domains recommended for LBP studies i.e. back specific function, generic health status, pain, psychological distress, work disability and patient satisfaction [ 36].
Moderate correlations in the expected direction with measures of depressive symptoms, overall psychological distress, work and social functioning and emotional stability support the construct validity of the MHSES, while at the same time indicating that the scale measures a discrete construct.
For psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals trying to help people through distress, working in the NHS increasingly means an exhausting maze of paperwork, box-ticking and justifying your keep.
Distress works as an incitement for care-seeking [ 7].
Distress works as a catalyst in the process of cognitive restructuring that is needed to look at the world in new ways characteristic of PTG.
HUNTINGTON -- "Distressed," works by Bernice Halpern Cutler.
Health professionals reported frequently distress at work due to work overloads and the constant confrontation with illness.
